Critical field strength in an electroclinic liquid crystal elastomer

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Spillmann, Christopher M ^a   Kapur, Amit V ^a   Bentrem, Frank W ^a   Naciri, Jawad ^a   Ratna, Banahalli R ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FIELD STRENGTH; CROSS-LINKING DENSITY; ELECTROCLINIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ENTANGLED POLYMERS; INTERMEDIATE FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; MAXIMUM RESPONSE TIME; MESOGENS; MOLECULAR TILT; POLYMER DYNAMICS; SWITCHING TIME; TIME REGIME; TIME-DEPENDENT RESPONSE;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; RUBBER;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77953155896     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.227802     Document Type: Article

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